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[–]magnora7[S] 7 insightful - 3 fun7 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 3 fun -  (6 children)

[–]CreditKnifeMan 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (5 children)

Do you have any videos of any US shill farms?

I've seen the Israeli public versions. They openly work on Wikipedia (etc.) , because they had tv shows about it, and they gave out prizes (like rides in hot air balloons, and such) to the participants.

I suppose the US govt still pretends it doesn't engage in this. Although they were caught by accident because of Reddit. Elgin airbase iirc.

[–]magnora7[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

I've never seen footage of a western company or agency doing it, no. I assume the security is tighter in the US about this sort of thing, whereas apparently in china they're able to sneak out some footage.

Or maybe it's a matter of propaganda, maybe Chinese internet users have seen footage of western shill companies but we haven't.

[–]jet199 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Or maybe western countries just use bots because wages are higher.

[–]magnora7[S] 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Good point, the western shill farms probably have to pay $10/hr or so per employee, but I imagine the Chinese shill farms pay about $1/hr or something

[–]CreditKnifeMan 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Good point.
Chinese Internet shills are a fact of daily life in China.
They're like China's internet parking ticket cops.

Or maybe it's a matter of propaganda, maybe Chinese internet users have seen footage of western shill companies but we haven't.

That's funny. This could be a video of an elite hacker club at a wealthy university.

Rich kids, and grad students just living it up, with zero nefarious intent. Or maybe a commercial for the school's hacker club.

They tricked us into shaking our fists and thinking "those dang shills!"

Lol!

[–]Insider 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

The ones in the video are used for mass upvotes. You can pay money for Chinese companies to mass upvote or give you 5-star ratings for your company. It gets pretty obvious which businesses use it when like 10k customers give them a perfect 5-star rating.

The Eglin Air Force Base is an astroturf program where they have live people making comments on social media to promote disinformation.

Two different things, which is why there's video footage of the former.